Culture-building

Students are in a safe and respectful environment, where social and emotional skills are specifically taught, practiced, and addressed within the context of the pre-adolescent and adolescent brain development.

An emphasis is made upon empathy and emotional intelligence.

Individuals with a growth mindset believe that anyone can learn and achieve, errors are opportunities for improvement, new and unfamiliar endeavors should be explored, learning is as much about "process" as it is about "product", and that failures are only temporary setbacks.